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Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This is a set of six verses in Tamil in the Kaṭṭaḷaikkalittuṟai metre praising the greatness of Pallavāṇḍār alias Kāḍavarāyar ‘who conquered Toṇḍai-maṇḍalam’ and who was the son of Kūḍal Āḷappiṟandāṉ alias Kāḍavarāyar. He is called Pallavaṉ, Kāḍavar-kōṉ, Kūḍal-maṉṉavar and one of the verses alludes to the battle at Śēvūr, probably identical with Mēl-Śēvūr in the Tindivanam taluk of the South Arcot district, where he slew a large number of his enemies and ‘created mountains of dead bodies and swelling rivers of blood’. His opponent on the battle-field at Śēvūr is not specified, but the result was the conquest of Toṇḍai-nāḍu which included Peṇṇai-nāḍu, Vaḍa-Vēṅgaḍam and Kachchi ‘surrounded by the sea’. That Pallavāṇḍār also defeated the northern powers is indicated by a verse stating that the ‘northern kings who did not come and make obeisance to the Kāḍava, could not find even a hill or a forest to which they could flee for refuge’.
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0125.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription consisting of 11 verses in Tamil and praising the family of Kāḍava chiefs, was engraved under orders of Araśanārāyaṇaṉ Āḷappiṟandāṉ Vīraśēkharaṉ alias Kāḍavarāyaṉ on the ‘Gaṇḍarādittaṉ-vāśal’ in the Vṛiddhagirīśvara temple at Vṛiddhāchalam. The verses themselves do not give any historical information, but the prose passages prefixed to some of them give the following genealogy for the Kāḍava chiefs.
Vaḷandāṉār alias Kāḍavarāyar
Āṭkoḷḷiyār alias Kāḍavarāyar
Ēḻiśaimōgaṉ Kāḍavarāyar, ‘who conquered the four quarters’
Araśanārāyaṇaṉ Kachchiyarāyar alias Kāḍavarāyar
Āḷappiṟandāṉ Vīraśēkharaṉ alias Kāḍavarāyaṉ, ‘who destroyed Kūḍal in Ś 1108 (= A.D. 1186).’
The last-mentioned chief viz., Āḷappiṟandāṉ Vīraśēkharaṉ alias Kāḍavarāyaṉ is also stated to have proceeded due west of the ‘Gaṇḍarādittan-vāśal’ in Śaka 1106 (A.D. 1184), destroyed Kūḍal belonging to Kaṟkaṭaka-Mārāyaṉ and the country of Adiyamāṉ and planted there his flag with the figure of Hanumān on it. From the context we have to take ‘Gaṇḍarādittaṉ-vāśal’ as the gōpura where this inscription is found. The Kūḍal mentioned above may be identified with the village Tīrttāmalai in the Salem District (A.R. No. 660 of 1905).
A copy of the present inscription is also found in the gōpura of the Kṛipāpurīśvara temple at Tiruveṇṇainallūr (No. 264 below).
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0263.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This damaged inscription is identical with the previous record found at Vṛiddhāchalam.
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0264.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription consists of three verses in Tamil in praise of the Kāḍava chief who made the ruler of the land bordering the river Kāvērī his subordinate, by taking from him the tiger banner.
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0265.